August 30th, 1939

Transcript

Times Log Location Source

12:00am

Letter to John J. Cochran in Missouri

White House

PRI

9:48am –

10:16am

Thomas Corcoran

White House

USH

10:50am

To Office

White House

USH

11:15am

Chair. Marriner S. Eccles

Office

STE, TU

12:00pm

Edwin C. Wilson (Minister to Uruguay)

Office

STE, TU

12:15pm

War Resources Board: Asst. Sec. Louis Johnson, Asst. Navy Sec. Charles Edison, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. (Chairman), Karl T. Compton, Walter S. Clifford, Harold G. Moulton, John Lee Pratt, Col. H. K. Rutherford (Secretary) (Gen. Robert E. Wood, member is absent)

Office

STE, TU

1:00pm

(lunch) Louis Brownlow

Office

STE, TU

3:00pm

Lord Lothian (Informal presentation of credentials)

Office

STE, TU

3:30pm

Rear Adm. B. Morreell , Ross T. McIntire, et al

Office

STE

4:00pm

(Laughlin Currie)

Office

STE

7:05pm

Returned from Office via Doctor's office

White House

USH

7:30pm

(dinner) Household only

White House

USH

10:15pm

Retired

White House

USH

USH = White House Usher's Diary, STE = Stenographer's Diary, PC = Press Conference, TU = Tully's Appointment Diary

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